Roundup: News in Brief

Vince Young is known for escaping pressure. The quarterback almost took that to extremes.

The Tennessee Titans 2006 Rookie of the Year told NFL.com in an interview posted on Monday that he considered retirement after his first season.

"I really thought long and hard about it," Young told the Web site. "There was so much going on with my family. It was crazy being an NFL quarterback. It wasn't fun anymore. All of the fun was out of it. All of the excitement was gone. All I was doing was worrying about things.

"My teammates helped lift me out of it. I prayed really hard. And I began to focus on God's calling for me. Play football. Be a role model."

Young was installed as the Titans starter in Week 4 of his rookie season and led Tennessee to an 8-8 record. The Titans barely missed making the playoffs, but Young was named to the Pro Bowl.

Last season, the Titans did make it to the playoffs, but Young threw all nine of the team's touchdown passes for the fewest of any team in the league. Nonetheless, he learned to live with the pressure of being an NFL quarterback.

College hoops: FAU to hire Jarvis

Former St. John's and George Washington head coach Mike Jarvis is about to make his return to the sidelines.

Florida Atlantic will give Jarvis a four-year contract to take over duties as its men's head basketball coach on Tuesday, according to multiple media reports.

Jarvis, who hasn't coached in college since he was fired by St. John's in December 2003, replaces Rex Walters.

Walters left the Boca Raton school to take over the program at San Francisco.

Jarvis also coached at Boston University and future NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing played for Jarvis in high school.

In 2007-08, Florida Atlantic finished with a 14-17 record including an 8-10 mark in the Sun Belt Conference.

Softball: Gators open Series on Thursday

The top-seeded University of Florida softball team will play in the first game of the Women's College World Series at 1 p.m. Thursday in Oklahoma City, Okla. The Gators (67-3) will take on unseeded Louisiana-Lafayette, who upended No. 8 seed Houston in Super Regionals.

Soccer: Man United cornered by Ronaldo speculation

LONDON -- Cristiano Ronaldo says he will announce within two weeks where he will be playing soccer next season. That may mean he has already decided to move to Real Madrid. More likely he will be staying at Manchester United for more money.

After 42 goals for the Red Devils including one in last week's Champions League final triumph over Chelsea in Moscow, Ronaldo is the hottest player in the world right now. Even hotter than Barcelona's Lionel Messi and AC Milan's Kaka whose clubs fell way behind in their domestic title races and didn't make it to the Champions League final.

Ronaldo's goals, his mesmerizing dribbling skills and long-range, swerving, dipping free kicks have increased his transfer value to put him out of reach for all but a handful of clubs.

After six seasons without European soccer's biggest prize, however, Madrid sees Ronaldo as the missing ingredient it needs to win another Champions League. The Spanish soccer giant holds the record of nine titles in what used to be known as the European Cup, but hasn't added to that total since 2002.

But it would need to pay a world record transfer fee of something like $118.8 million even if it persuaded United to sell. Ronaldo is a year into a five-year contract at Old Trafford and United has given no indication that it is willing to sell its biggest asset.